MINOR TACTICS OF CHESS: A Treatise on the Deployment of the Forces in Obedience to Strategic Principle
by Young, Franklin K. and Howell, Edwin C
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ to Very Good-/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Boston, MA: Little, Brown, and Company, 1915. 222 pp. Original green cloth covers, lightly soiled w/ modest rubbing to corners. Spine a bit sunned w/ light fraying to ends. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down. Edges of leaves a bit age toned. Light dampstains at outer margin of last few leaves, not affecting text. Illust. w/ b/w figures.. Hard Cover. Good+ to Very Good-/No Dust Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Shoemaker Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23521FUNC
- Title
- MINOR TACTICS OF CHESS: A Treatise on the Deployment of the Forces in Obedience to Strategic Principle
- Author
- Young, Franklin K. and Howell, Edwin C
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ to Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Publisher
- Little, Brown, and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA
- Date Published
- 1915
- Keywords
- FUN GAMES CHESS HISTORY TECHNIQUES TACTICS STRATEGY NONFICTION GENERAL ILLUSTRATED
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fun - Chess; Fun;
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Shoemaker Booksellers
Biblio member since 2007
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
About Shoemaker Booksellers
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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